DAFilms brings you a selection of Jude’s films focusing on how history is remembered, narrated, and manipulated, particularly in the context of Romania’s 20th-century trauma.
For its 36th edition in 2025, the Doc Alliance member festival FIDMarseille dedicated its retrospective to one of the boldest and most provocative voices of contemporary European cinema: Radu Jude. DAFilms brings you a selection of Jude’s films, with a focus on his non-fiction work.
Although one might argue that Jude’s work is never completely fictitious — being grounded so deeply in the (mostly Romanian) socio-political context — this program focuses on those of his films with a more clear-cut documentary or experimental approach, plus two of his earlier short fiction films.
You’ll find toys mocking sexual politics and consumerism (Semiotic Plastic), ghosts in family kitchens (It Can Pass Through the Wall), and photographs that refuse to stay silent (The Dead Nation and Memories from the Eastern Front). Whether he's dissecting Romania’s uncomfortable WWII past, dramatizing small domestic moments with unsettling precision (Alexandra), or asking what really happened to Marshal Antonescu (The Marshal’s Two Executions), Jude lets the historical record speak — loudly, plainly, and with a great deal of cynicism.
To get in the right mood for watching these films, you might want to start with a special message Radu Jude recorded for DAFilms viewers back in 2021:
Or the DAFilms Live Conversation we had with him:
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